Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-13

WHEN MIR. flEkCE, VI w Jeuofiito, WIZ
was delegate to the last national demo-
cratic convention. was here in May, he said
the people of his section of the State, IN
which there has recently been great de.
velopment of mining and manufacturing
industries, were 90 impressed with the ur-
gent Importance Of the settlement of the
State debt 10 all those industries, that they
would favor a settlement upon the credit
ors' terms, even if those terms called for
principal of thirty millions, provided the
settlement be speedy, eflectual and perma.
nent. To show that Mr.. Pierce was right,
it is only necessary to mention the fact that
at a mass meeting OF the democratic party
of Wythe county, last Monday, resolutions
were unanimously adopted in favor of the
settlement of the debt upon terms that will
meet the lust demands of the creditors, that
if departure from the terms of the Riddle
berger llEbe necessary to accomplish that
result, such departure be made, that the
decision of the Supreme Court on the debt
question should be accepted and obeyed by
all Iaw-abiding citizens, and that the gen.
ersl condition of the country should In
spre all sons of Virginia with faith in her
ultimate ability to meet her pecuniary OBJ
legations. And yet, with such facts before
their eyes, the repudiating democrats cay
it will never do to abandon the Riddleber-
ger repudiating bill, lest the whole south.
western part of the State, the white dis.
trict at that, be lost to the democratic party
FROM THE opposition to Mr.. Sherman
manifested by the republicans of his own
State, it is apparent that General Malone
and Mr.. John Wise will be forced, against
their will, to abandon that Ohio statesman,
their fsvorite for the republican nomination
for the next Presidency, and content them.
selves with some body else, probably Mr..
Blaine, for whom they have no love, and
in speaking of whom, Ex-Governor Lewis
says, A1r. Wise once remarked that if he
we're nominated, he, Wise, would 60 10 his
hole and pull the hole in after him." Reso.
lutious declaring Mr.. Sherman the choice OF
the republicans of the county convention
that met at Lima, Ohio, short time ago
were withdrawn by the fear of defeat, and
the dread of similar result deferred Mr..
Sherman's friends from presenting similar
resolutions at the meeting of the re-
publican executive committee of Hamil-
ton county, in Cincinnati, last Friday. And
even the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Is
SO apparently disaffected that it says MIR.
Blaine was cheated out of the Presidency,
and that there is deep feeling among re-
publicans to right that wrong. In view Of
all this, it is hardly possible that General
Malone can fulfill his promise TO carry
solid Sherman delegation from Virginia to
the next national republican convention.
NOT A ravisher, an incendiary, gambler
nor Mormon, but an evangelist, against
whose moral character there wac no charge,
arrived, the New York Herald says, in Jer-
sey City night before last, having been
driven out of Park Ridge, New Jersey, by
Philistines, who smots him sorely, cut of
his hair, whiskers and mustache, and sever
ed his right ear. No Southern newspaper
has attempted to make this incident an il
lustration of the low grade Of New Jersey,
or of Northern, civiliz ,tion. But when a
notorious villain, one, for instance, who, in
the rural parts of the South, calls secret
meetings of the negroes, whom he incites to